Hasenpfeffer
- 3 pounds rabbit frozen
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 13 cup flour, all-purpose
- 1/2 pound bacon cut up
- 1/2 cup shallots chopped
- 1 clove garlic chopped
- 1 cup red wine dry
- 1 cup water
- 1 tablespoon chicken bouillon cubes
- 1 tablespoon currant jelly
- 10 each black peppercorns crushed
- 1 small bay leaves
- 1/4 teaspoon rosemary leaves dried
- 18 teaspoon thyme dried
- 2 teaspoons lemon juice
- 3 tablespoons water
- 2 tablespoons flour, all-purpose
- Sprinkle rabbit with salt.
- Coat with 13 cup flour; shake off excess.
- Fry bacon in Dutch oven over medium heat until crisp; remove bacon and drain on paper towels.
- Brown a few pieces of rabbit in hot bacon fat; remove browned pieces.
- Repeat with remaining rabbit.
- Remove all but 2 tablespoons fat.
- Cook and stir shallots and garlic in hot fat in Dutch oven until shallots are tender, about 4 minutes.
- Stir in wine, 1 cup water and the instant bouillon.
- Heat to boiling.
- Stir in jelly, peppercorns, bay leaf, rosemary and thyme.
- Return rabbit and bacon to Dutch oven.
- Heat to boiling; reduce heat.
- Cover and simmer until rabbit is tender, about 1 1/2 hours.
- Remove bay leaf and discard.
- Place rabbit on warm platter; keep warm while preparing gravy.
- Stir lemon juice into liquid in Dutch oven.
- Shake 3 tablespoons water and 2 tablespoons flour in covered jar.
- Stir flour 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme leaves in cheesecloth bag.
- stir 1 minute.
- Serve gravy with rabbit.
rabbit frozen, salt, flour, bacon, shallots, garlic, red wine, water, chicken bouillon cubes, currant jelly, bay leaves, rosemary, thyme, lemon juice, water, flour
Taken from recipeland.com/recipe/v/hasenpfeffer-42146 (may not work)